The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

2. This will be a comprehensive intuition; as its §2object is entire glory. I mean comparatively, ⟨p. 100⟩not absolutely comprehensive. More of the divine glory will be comprehended, unspeakably, than before. 'Tis called, we know, by the Schoolmen, the knowledge of comprehensors, in contradistinction to that of viators; we shall better be able to discern the divine excellencies together; have much more adequate conceptions, a fuller, and more complete notion of God: We shall see him as he is. 'Tis too much observable, how in our present state, we are prejudiced by our partial conceptions of him, and what an inequality they cause in the temper of our Spirits.

2. This will be a comprehensive intu•tion; as its §2object is entire glory. I mean comparatively, ⟨p. 100⟩not absolutely comprehensive. More of the divine glory will be comprehended, unspeakably, than before. 'Tis called, we know, by the Schoolmen, the knowledge of comprehensors, in contradistinction to that of viators; we shall better be able to discern the divine excellencies together; have much more adequate conceptions, a fuller, and more compleat notion of God: We shall see him as he is. 'Tis too much observable, how in our present state, we are prejudiced by our partial conceptions of him, and what an inequality they cause in the temper of our Spirits.

For wicked men, the very notion they have of God, proves fatal to their souls; or is of a most destructive tendency, because they comprehend not together what God hath revealed of himself. Most usually, they confine those few thoughts of God they have only to his mercy, and that exclusively, as to his holiness, and justice; hence their vain and mad presumption. The notion of an unholy (or a not-holy, and not-just) God what wickedness would it not induce? Thou thoughtest I was altogether such a one as thy self: A God after their own hearts: then the reigns are let loose. More rarely, when the conscience of guilt hath arrested the self-condemned wretch; God is thought of under no other notion, than of an irreconcilable enemy, and avenger; as one thirsting after the blood of Souls, and that will admit of no atonement; so without all pretence, and so flatly contrary to all his discoveries of himself, do men dare to affix to him